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god help us. god help us. >> thank you, mr. bledsoe. our next witness ises director of somali edation and its social advocacy center in minneapolis, minnesota, the uncle of borhan hassan. i ask you to limit your remarks to five minutes or so. >> thank you. first, i want to say thank you to chairman king and members of the committee for allowing me to speak on behalf of the muslim somali american community today. i also want to thank the somali american community for helping us, the families of the missing children, to stand up against the radicalization of our youth. stand up against the radicalization of our youth. i want to tell you why i'm here today and how important it is for me. i'm here because of my boren hassan. not only him but 20 and 40 others who are somali americans in the state of minnesota who have been brainwashed, radicalized by members of our community and back home into a berning burning in a civil war. i want to talk aut my nephew. i love my sister, and her family was along about hundreds of thousands o fled from the
god help us. god help us. >> thank you, mr. bledsoe. our next witness ises director of somali edation and its social advocacy center in minneapolis, minnesota, the uncle of borhan hassan. i ask you to limit your remarks to five minutes or so. >> thank you. first, i want to say thank you to chairman king and members of the committee for allowing me to speak on behalf of the muslim somali american community today. i also want to thank the somali american community for helping us, the...
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i think most of us, allf us think help inappropriate it can be. by and large, the terrorist we are dealing with have come from that community, and that is a fact. it is also important to realize that at one point, -- there are 01 0.4 blion muslims in the world. our responsibility is to reach out and embrace them and bill that level of trust and credibility. it is like the man who went into the embassy to talk about the detroit bomber. that is the kind of information and resources we need. >> we have built on that. the fbi has efforts we participate in. we have a civil rights and civil liberties component within the department. that active outreach programs. the muslim community in terms of associations have reached out to us and invited us to other meetings in their communities and so forth. there is an active bridge building going on. it is important, because as tom said, it is important to distinguish muslims from islamists, from terrorist, that very small percentage to seek to do us harm. that small percentage exists, but it is not the muslim c
i think most of us, allf us think help inappropriate it can be. by and large, the terrorist we are dealing with have come from that community, and that is a fact. it is also important to realize that at one point, -- there are 01 0.4 blion muslims in the world. our responsibility is to reach out and embrace them and bill that level of trust and credibility. it is like the man who went into the embassy to talk about the detroit bomber. that is the kind of information and resources we need....
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have used. the claim he made was that federal employees are better educated on average than private-sector employees. that is a correct claim. he also claimed that the pace cities that i have done and others have done the -- do not compare them accurately. that is not true. we compare apples to apples. we control the differences. the federal pay agent analysis defines a pay penalty of almost 25% by contrast, that does not take education into account. it looks into a job, but does not account for the fact that private sector employers tend to put more educated individuals -- public-sector employers tend to put more educated individuals into those positions and then private-sector employers. he did not correctly characterize the study that i did. >> with a clerk at wal-mart be the same as the court in one of our agencies if you were looking at the the two. >> in general, no. we do not categorized by job cuts. we categorize them by the human capital they are bringing to the game. you would least ha
have used. the claim he made was that federal employees are better educated on average than private-sector employees. that is a correct claim. he also claimed that the pace cities that i have done and others have done the -- do not compare them accurately. that is not true. we compare apples to apples. we control the differences. the federal pay agent analysis defines a pay penalty of almost 25% by contrast, that does not take education into account. it looks into a job, but does not account...
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i would much rather use development assistance rather than use our military. from every point of view, you're absolutely correct. this needs to be part of our discussions about national security in which we need to make sure we have adequate resources. the amount of money that we're spending on our international development programs are relatively small. i want to move to a second part of this equation that you and i have talked about before. i will be chairing the subcommittee that deals with international development assistance. i want to know a little bit more about accountability. we talked about this several times. our involvement in other countries needs to advance gender equity, needs to make sure we are not participating in corruption so that the money into the pockets of some despot rather than going to the development of the nation. can you share with us ways in which you can engage this committee to make sure that we get the proper return in regards to american values as we participate in other countries? >> senator, thank you and thank you for your
i would much rather use development assistance rather than use our military. from every point of view, you're absolutely correct. this needs to be part of our discussions about national security in which we need to make sure we have adequate resources. the amount of money that we're spending on our international development programs are relatively small. i want to move to a second part of this equation that you and i have talked about before. i will be chairing the subcommittee that deals with...
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that surprised us, frankly. there is an attempt to try to organize this better and a recognition that this is a real problem. we will benefit from your recommendations greatly, and a look forward to them. >> they need operational responsibility. >> that is the problem. interestingly enough, and this now goes back a while, we had a hearing here maybe two years ago now. it's somewhat dated, but a hearing with some leaders of the muslim american community. we asked, is there any agency of the federal government that has gone out reach to your community which has done the most? to me the surprising answer we got was, yes, the fbi through its state offices had been reaching out quite a lot and had some communication the nypd sets the standard. it has committed -- not inexpensive, labor intensive. they have committed a lot, maybe because they were so struck, traumatized by 9/11 they have committed a lot of resources and excellent communication with the muslim american community. the lapd does a great job, but there ar
that surprised us, frankly. there is an attempt to try to organize this better and a recognition that this is a real problem. we will benefit from your recommendations greatly, and a look forward to them. >> they need operational responsibility. >> that is the problem. interestingly enough, and this now goes back a while, we had a hearing here maybe two years ago now. it's somewhat dated, but a hearing with some leaders of the muslim american community. we asked, is there any agency...
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that's what makes us strong. endless spending, taxing and borrowing is a certain path to decline, and we're on that path today and we must get off it. so we know the threat, we know what we need to do. the economy is trying to rebound. so let's take some good steps today. let's pass this61 billion reduction in spending this fiscal year. it will amount to about about $860 billion over ten years. it will be a very significant first step. that's what's before us today. not the other isss. we have got to decide what we are going to do about funding the governmentetween now and september 30. that's the rest of this fiscal year. let's take a fir step on that. let's begin to look at what we are going to do for next year's budgets and what we're going to do about our surging entitlement programs that are on an unsustainable course. we can do all those things and leave our country healthy and vigorous and prosperous for the future. i truly believe that that's the kind of thing that we need to be doing now. so i am really
that's what makes us strong. endless spending, taxing and borrowing is a certain path to decline, and we're on that path today and we must get off it. so we know the threat, we know what we need to do. the economy is trying to rebound. so let's take some good steps today. let's pass this61 billion reduction in spending this fiscal year. it will amount to about about $860 billion over ten years. it will be a very significant first step. that's what's before us today. not the other isss. we have...